Importance Of Art And Education

“After a certain high level of technical skill achieved, science and arts tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientist are artist as well” (Albert Einstein). In this advanced modern tech-world mostly people are dependent on science and technology, but arts also play an important role in education. Art creates balanced thinking and better imagination which helps humans to be successful in their career. Yo-Yo Ma intensely informs about important role of arts in modern education society throughout his essay Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and education. Ma illustrates that arts should be also part of education, because it improve students to filter their imagination through disciplined knowledge. Liberal arts should be equal to science and technology because it creates new idea, and in this modern world people should think critical than divergent in their lives. Empathy teaches students to understand and simplify the complicated life. Collaboration include discussion amongst people or group to make things effortless. Moreover liberal arts itself is beauty such as performing arts, it values the beauty of imagination in modern society by art and sculpture.

During school, students should be engaged and willing to learn more about what they are learning. With art, there is no need for someone to be good at it. Art is dependent only on the artist herself. If students view art as just another subject, then they are missing the academic value art gives. Art goes beyond having artistic value and surpasses the idea of one's own limits. According to Allyono17, one of the authors of an article in Teen Ink magazine,

The arts should be known as a core academic subject. Arts should be in education at schools because it helps with all of the students classes. Music includes about every subject. Math, with the counting and rhythms. English in the reading of the music; Science in the history of the writers the music and what time the music was written; History is the time frame of the songs and the music that tells a story; Physics, in the way the instructor conducts. Clearly music is a pretty important art. For example drawing with shapes, shadows and lines help with the brain and how the brain works more creatively and effectively. Everyone who gets taught from the arts is benefited somehow. “Art does not solve problems, but makes us aware of their

Art can give us a way to show people that we have skill in some that not in sport or something. It can be a career in art. Also it can clam down or relax the person.

Art Education is an intricate dance between what is needed, wanted, and reflected by society. The ancient Greeks had a belief that those who created, such as a craftsman, should be shown little respect or appreciation. The importance was placed on music and the affluent did not participate in the visual arts. Even though there was resistance, Plato was a visual arts advocate and the Greek’s granted visual arts its own curriculum. The Romans maintained this position on the visual arts. However, in the Middle Ages, monks began to practice art; such as the Illuminated Manuscripts. They would then train others extensively in apprenticeships. New technologies, brought new processes that were taught in this same time consuming workshop fashion. The Renaissance, and its focus on beauty and the figure, brought a new attitude of respect and admiration for the visual arts. It was taught as classical training along with the workshops. The French developed a more structured way of how and what was to be taught concerning the visual arts in their own academies. However, all of these advances were mostly only available to the rich. This attitude was carried into colonial America where art was taught as a “luxury pursuit” (Efland, 1990) that was not deemed as very lucrative.

As our education budget continues to diminish, our art programs have received the brunt of the cutbacks. In such schools, the arts exist in unappreciative, and even hostile environments. We should be fighting to keep art programs in the education system because they have been an essential part of American culture, they illuminate truths perceptually and more immediate than the spoken word, and they offer an indispensable educational dimension to our students.

The arts education have always had a secondary place in Kindergarten to 12th grade learning, but children need to learn about the arts. All students should have the opportunity to experience a well-rounded education. An education that pushes beyond the normal subjects of mathematics, writing, reading, sciences and include the arts as an essential element. Arts education has been shown to improve student performance. Certain forms of artistic practice have been linked to improvement of cognitive capacities thought to be important for academics, for example, research suggests that music training can improve spatiotemporal reasoning, and this may help with certain forms of mathematics learning (Rinne, Gregory, Yarmolinskaya, and Hardiman (2011). Music training can change brain circuitry and can improve general cognition in at least some circumstances. While diligence training in one cognitive area can transfer to improvements in other cognitive skills. Therefore, the arts can play a critical role in improving schools and educational outcomes for all students.

The Arts form a huge part of what makes an individual human. Ewing (2011) describes art education as the central role in forming cultural practices and identities of all individuals. This is the purpose of arts education, it is a tool used by Educators to cultivate the development of the whole child by encouraging genuine learning opportunities that yield to the development of the child socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively and ethically. If Children are to become creative and successful individuals in the broader society then it is crucial that the stepping stones for these individuals to achieve are enabled with the aid of a rich educational curriculum (MCEETYA, 2008). Educational curriculums need to be designed to enable children and youth with abilities and skills to participate fully in the world that lies beyond the bubble that is school. Individuals need to be able to problem solve, regulate behaviours and emotions and think strategically (Ewing, 2011). One of the ways these skills can be imparted is through the Arts. Access to the Arts allows children to absorb new skills and knowledge in ways that differ from more traditional methods of teaching. Using engaging vehicles such as drama, media and music, dance and visual arts as a means to promote holistic learning experiences, creates the possibility for individuals to bloom as members of society (MCEETYA and Cultural Ministers Council, 2005).

Many sources such as the famous “The Atlantic Magazine” confirm that America spends billions of dollars on its Public School System and yet it is very far from being at the top globally. In order to improve the final product of all that money spent America needs to have more appreciation for arts education, make testing harder and also adapt students to become less technology dependent.

Therefore, art has a significant existence in our everyday lives. And with education that plays an important tool in everyone lives, art will play an important role in order to enhance and support education.The arts strands identify the skills, knowledge, and understandings that students develop through learning in the arts. Benefits of learning creative arts give the children opportunity to explore, express their own ideas, understand and have the confident about their creativity, feelings and getting ideas from others. (Sinclair, C Jeannert, N. & O’Toole J 2012, p.17).

The continued success of art education should be focused on studying art through individual experiences, and development. Also art history and the study of visual culture are meaningless in the lives of learners unless they are better integrated into the art education curriculum (Mcfee 1960:18). Although arts education has made great historical strides Efland (1990:263) still questions the system of art education curricula particularly the educator’s way of facilitating skills

The arts education has always had a secondary place in Kindergarten to 12th grade learning, but children need to learn about the arts. All students should have the opportunity to experience a well-rounded education. An education that pushes beyond the normal subjects of mathematics, writing, reading, sciences and include the arts as an essential element. Arts education has been shown to improve student performance. Certain forms of artistic practice have been linked to improvement of cognitive capacities thought to be important for academics, for example, research suggests that music training can improve spatiotemporal reasoning, and this may help with certain forms of mathematics learning (Rinne, Gregory, Yarmolinskaya, and Hardiman (2011). Music training can change brain circuitry and can improve general cognition in at least some circumstances. While diligence training in one cognitive area can transfer to improvements in other cognitive skills. Therefore, the arts can play a critical role in improving schools and educational outcomes for all students.

Many young girls dream about being ballerinas when they grow up. Most adults think it is sweet, and some parents even sign their children up for dance classes. However, as they age, that dream of being a professional dancer appears to be inadequate. Why is that? In our culture, there is a lack of importance on the arts, and thus, a lack of funding. Many see the arts as frivolous and a cost that is not imperative to the success of a nation. On the other hand, one could ask how a country can be successful without a cultural identity that is largely created by the arts and humanities in the society. President Lyndon B. Johnson declared that, “Any ‘advanced civilization’ must fully value the arts, the humanities, and cultural activity” (Deb). Being a professional artist of any kind seems like an unstable career because there is a lack of consistent and substantial funding for them. The only way to change the funding crisis is to fight the cultural tendency to dismiss the importance of the arts. This will happen through educating those who have yet to lose that sense of innocence, wonder, and imagination, and integrating the arts into their academic and social lives.

How often in your free time do you draw a picture, maybe make a clay sculpture? Not too often probably. Most people don’t realize that art can be really beneficial for you. That’s why I think that art education should be in schools. Art education is not only beneficial to your brain, it can also help with friendships and relationships plus art can help expand your brain.

The importance of the study and practice of different types of art education has been dated back to Plato’s time. Studying the arts today is often overlooked due to the other core classes and deemed unimportant, yet to many students it is something they’re passionate about. It takes time to learn and perfect the skills required to perform these arts similarly to how it takes time to learn new formulas and how they work in a math class. However, all over the country, there are schools losing state funds. Fine arts is one subject that is being hit the hardest by this. Classes such as band, drama, music, painting, etc., are either being taken out individually or they’re all being eliminated completely. All forms of art and art education aid to the improvement of student’s learning abilities and are essential to their school career, therefore it should not be ripped away from the school curriculum.